"I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

"Music is my religion"

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer"

"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.""

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field"

"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy"

"I've always been into melodies. That's what I love about music – a good melody that gives you goosebumps"

"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"